Resources

I AM A TEACHER EXPO PARTICIPANTS @ MSU:

Here is the PowerPoint Presentation and other materials from my Dialogic Discussion presentation on Saturday, March 16 at Erickson Hall.

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Essay Writing Resources:

Find a long and useful list of transitions at this website. (Make sure the transition you pick are appropriate for the paragraph you are writing!)
http://www.d214.org/district_library/transition_list.aspx

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General Grammar & Vocabulary Resources

Reference Sources:

• Online Etymology Dictionary: From the website: "Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago." In the English language, these origins are particularly far flung.
• Dictionary.com: Until the Oxford English Dictionary is offered online free of charge, Dictionary.com is the place to go. In addition to comprehensive definitions from several online dictionaries and hyperlinked synonyms, there are nice etymologies and pronunciation guides (with audio). Great for connotation and denotation. You can also access a thesaurus from this website.

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GRAMMAR TOPICS & RESOURCES
Parts of Speech

• "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" with helping verbs: http://www.quia.com/rr/121293.html
• Non-Action Verbs information: http://faculty.mdc.edu/jgarcia/1341LdocDone/Verbs/Stativeverbs.htm
• Adverb game: http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Adverbs.html
• Adverb information: http://www.english-for-students.com/Adverb-Clause-of-Condition.html

http://www.esldesk.com/grammar/adverbs

• Good (adjective) vs Well (adverb) information: http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/adjectives-adverbs/good-v-well/
• Schoolhouse Rock:
  • Conjunctions:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZqI5b5wGA4 (c)1973
  • Interjections: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e24kdjdbtw (c)1974
  • Prepositions:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmz8mM-nPtM (c)1993
  • Adverbs:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fXm4FOMPM (c)1974
  • Adjectives:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbgZfQNBFS0 (c) 1974

• Preposition Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLAAHImQl0
  • 0:00 minutes-1:50 minutes is the most relevant information about prepositions

• Parts of Speech Practice Packet #1- We completed most of this packet in class.
  

  Parts pf Speech Packet #1.pdf
  

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Homophones:

• Their/they're/there information: http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=ESL1402

Commas:

• Comma Rules & Information: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp
• Information about using commas with dates: http://grammartips.homestead.com/datecommas.html
• Comma game: http://www.savethecomma.com/game/

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Infintives, Gerunds, Participles

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/1/

Appositives
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/01/

Appositives Game: http://www.quia.com/cb/8095.html

Prepositional Phrases:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/prepositionalphrase.htm